The Ethiopian government declared a state of emergency on 4 August 2023 and sent the military into the Amhara region to engage the Fano, a local armed militia. Some suggested that Ethiopia risked ...

The federal government of Ethiopia declared a state of emergency in Amhara region on 4 August 2023. A special session of parliament endorsed this decision, placing the administration of the country’s ...

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Ethiopia stands at one of the most consequential junctures in its long and complex history. The country is confronting a multidimensional political crisis ...

Appointed president of the Amhara region in September 2021, Kefale previously served as the head of the region’s education bureau. Before that he was the deputy dean of Debre Markos University. Yilkal ...

Before he was a rebel, Asres Mare Damte was a lawyer. Today he fights for the Fano, a loose collection of groups taking on Ethiopia's military in one of its most populous and powerful regions. The ...

Throughout the world the ideology of division and intolerance has permeated mainstream politics and poisoned societies; tribal nationalism, hate and prejudice are widespread, animosity and suspicion ...

Ethiopian lawmakers voted to extend a state of emergency in the northern Amhara region that the government first declared in August following clashes between federal troops and a rebel group. Justice ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Once a key ally of Ethiopia’s federal government in its deadly war in the country’s northern Tigray region, the neighboring Amhara region is now experiencing government-led mass ...

A destroyed tank is seen by the side of the road in an area of western Tigray annexed by the Amhara region during the then-ongoing Tigray War, in Humera, Ethiopia, May 1, 2021 (AP photo by Ben Curtis) ...

ADDIS ABABA, June 27 (Reuters) - Ethiopian police have arrested 56 members of an Amhara political party following a failed coup attempt in the region over the weekend, the party's spokesman said on ...

Ethiopia, once praised as a founder of the AU and a regional pillar, has been torn apart first by the Tigray war and now by bloody fighting in the Amhara region. Local and opposition sources speak of ...